Dr. Vyacheslav Dombrovsky

Research Fellow

Vyacheslav Dombrovsky has been a BICEPS Research Fellow since 2003 when he became the first returning PhD to join the centre. He is an economist with a broad range of research interests, including: entrepreneurship, political economy, and public sector economics. Recent research projects have been concerned with the effect of law enforcement on enterprise performance, measurement of the shadow economy, the determinants of entrepreneurship, taxation and the market for gambling and labour market policies.

Dr. Dombrovsky is the coordinator of the key BICEPS research programme in entrepreneurship. He is the leader of the Latvia country team in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) consortium, and is the local node coordinator in the RICAFE2 project on knowledge-based entrepreneurship that is funded by the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. Other current research includes a study of politically connected enterprises in Latvia.

Dr. Dombrovsky also holds the position of Assistant Professor of economics at SSE-Riga, where he teaches courses in International Economics, Econometrics, Public Finance, and Research Methods.

As well as academic work Dr. Dombrovsky is involved in a number of applied and policy spheres. Working with colleagues from BICEPS, OSB Consulting (Austria) and the Institute for Employment Studies (UK), he helps organize the Mutual Learning Programme of the European Employment Observatory. Recent local activities have included: contributing to the Latvian National Programme for SME development, examining the state of economics research capacity in Latvia, and analysis of tax policies in the market for gambling. He has also been an independent expert on a number of projects for the European Commission.
 

Expertise

Entrepreneurship
Public sector economics
Political economy
Applied econometrics
Economics of transition
Labour market policy

Education

Ph.D. in economics, Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), 2003
M.A. in economics, Clark University (Worcester, Massachusetts, USA), 2001
B.A. in economics, University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia), 1999

Previous Positions

Visiting Researcher, Stockholm Institute for Transition Economies, Stockholm School of Economics
Visiting Professor, Riga Business School

Selected Publications

“What kept the Russian Federation Intact? Testing the Internal Exit Model of Buchanan and Faith”, forthcoming in Ott, Attiat F. and Cebula, Richard (eds) (2006), Empirical Public Economics, Cheltenham, UK and Lyme, US: Edward Elgar.

“Who are the Latvian Entrepreneurs?” 2005. TeliaSonera Institute Discussion Paper No. 2 (co-authored with Alf Vanags and Ieva Ubele). Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.